I left Ireland in '93 and ended up in California. I have a great life here - wife, kids, comfortable living, plenty of work, weather (except the last 3 weeks), the list goes on... I am truly grateful for it and that's what I set out to achieve. However, for me anyway, there will always be a level of loneliness or homesickness even after almost 30 years. I have plenty of great friends here which I am also thankful for, but you are always an outsider to a certain degree. For example a lot of the references in conversations go way over my head still because I didn't grow up in this country. Even still some words I might use to describe something would be met with a vacant stare. In a way it is similar when you go back home for a visit - you are still a kind of an outsider. You have a great time meeting old friends and family, going for a pint, or to see a hurling match but there is a connection that is not there any more - probably because you haven't lived there for the past 30years. My wife once jokingly said "you are the man without a country" without any prompting from me and to some extent she it right - that is what happens when you emigrate. All that being said, I will always be Irish and Ireland will always be my home. I don't regret emigrating but there is a certain part of you that you give up as alluded to in the video. Anyway - thats how I see it. "Your mileage may vary" as they say here, or do we say that in Ireland too? I have to ask myself this question at least twice a day.

The men who built the UK 🇮🇪👍🏻☘️☘️☘️

Year 2006. I encountered a young lady in her teens while collecting money for the Polish charity (kids to be more precise) on Corkish streets. After a small talk with her where I've been trying to explain to her the purpose of me holding the collection box, she blithely claimed Poland was a shit country. I was a bit sad but even then I probably knew the history of Ireland better than she did, starting from Brian Boru, through English occupation, mid-19th century blight, Easter Rising and the Irish War of Independence. Irish emigration to the US and England was also in my mind. After 10 years living in Ireland I left this marvy country with the Irish Passport in my pocket and returned to my motherland to live my life there. After all these years I have a vivid memory of that encounter and can't wrap my head around the way how she perceived my country basing her knowledge on her current live only, living in unprecedented prosperity and well-being. It wasn't always like that on the Emeralnd Island, was it? Anyway, Ireland will always be in my heart till my very end and I'll probably spend my last days somewhere in the vicinity of Mizen Head binge drinking with my fellow Irish bogtrotters😀

Irish are so beautiful. Must have been centuries of pure food and clean air. Love from 🇬🇷!!!

Happening all over again. I'm in my late 20s (27) and my most of my generation are moving abroad for work reasons (UK, Australia, Canada, Central Europe). Planing on moving to London myself in the next year for work reasons . I work in IT and I can earn better money (a lot) and the rent is cheaper and better value in comparison to Dublin. I belive in the next few years Ireland will go through another brain drain like we did in 2008-2013. Educated young working professionals like myself are starting to realise there is better opportunities and values overseas.

Awesome video 👍🍀

Bacon and Cabbage and a pint. Superb stuff.

Those houses converted in to hostels are now worth MILLIONS

A wonderful service

Bishop Casey (he - as the then Fr Casey is the articulate man speaking midway in the sketch) was such a caring considerate man. He did my confirmation when he was bishop of Kerry. It was such a pity what happened to him and the way he was treated by the holier than thou Irish biddy's and not one honest or true Christian among them.

Yes I worked with Scottish carpenter and an Irish carpenter the Irish carpenter liked a drink on the weekends I can tell you good skilled men !

I wish there was a video about Canadians who emigrate to the USA, but we are so similar to Americans that most would consider it not worth watching. But even after 30 years, I still feel like a foreigner, and for me the move was from Vancouver to Seattle, just down the road. But the two peoples, while quite similar, are in certain areas profoundly different.

The Irish government should be financing Irish advice centres in large UK cities..

Fresh faced handsome lads,what a loss to the green isle

After hearing that racket from Lulu attempting to sing I wouldn’t blame them if they schlepped back to the Emerald Isle pronto..

Half Irish and English, the work ethic from my Irish father was off the scale! He went through all the racist BS, paddy can't do this or that, but beat them at their own game. Brought us up as English (not British) and taught us political consciousness. Dont sit on your arse waiting for salvation or retribution, work with what you have. When I went home as a kid, yes we discussed the political and economic origins of why things were today in terms of reference, but we "assimilated " . That's the succes of the Irish, unlike others, especially in my old turf of South London. Nuff said 😂

The roots of John Lennon and Paul McCartney..

Sometimes it seems like it was easy for them to just get up and immigrate. I guess they had friends to help them do it.

In ww2 British lost 60,000 men in the battle of Atlantic , 60,000 men Air war against nazi Germany , nearly 60,000 to the blitzs on Cities men woman and young children ,london Birmingham manchester Coventry liverpool, so British were short of manpower The Irish did Roadwork and building work while The English Scottish and Welsh had farming ,mining and steel and chemical works ,plus shipping all labour intensive trades at the time 🤔🙉🙊🙈

Pretty condescending to call them "boys and girls"

Like many people they came in search of a better life, and who could blame them, Ireland was extremely poor in the 1960’s, and Britain at the time had the larger variety of jobs with much better pay than they would have had back in Ireland. It wasn’t until the “Celtic tiger” economic boost of the late nineties/ early two thousands that Ireland managed to achieve a significant amount of prosperity nationally.

Irish migrating to Britain Is like people from wisconson moving to minnesota 😊

Homesickness one of the worst sicknesses of all....but without the UK where would they have gone? It’s the one thing the UK gave us was employment... unless it was a NO IRISH NO BLACKS NO DOGS place. They worked very very hard and sent money home ... most of them.

Irish economic migrants. Unvetted men of fighting age. Never forget your history.

It always amuses me when Brits think they are superior to the Irish. The Irish are sooo good looking for one. No milquetoasts here. The Brits are great at covert sarcasm though. Cowardly way though imo